Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 283, brush the question

"these people…"

After leaving Wangyue Tower, Tong Yuan couldn't help clenching his fists. Of course he knew that these people were laughing at him, but it didn't matter. He couldn't bear them to laugh at his master.

Although Liu Jin didn't teach them anything about the Four Books and Five Classics at all, they still learned a lot of useful knowledge from Liu Jin, which benefited both of them a lot, and they also deeply admire Liu Jin as a teacher.

"Don't pay attention to them, it's just that we need to work hard this time for our rural examination so as not to lose face of our teacher."

Huang Jinquan shook his head slightly and said, just thinking about the difficulty of the imperial examination, and thinking about his own knowledge level, he couldn't help feeling discouraged.

"Ah."

Tong Yuan nodded solemnly, and secretly swore in his heart.

Early the next morning, the two of them arrived at Liu Jin's residence early, ready to listen to Liu Jin's teachings and prepare hard for this time's rural examination.

"Why did you come so early?"

Liu Jin is naturally carefree, he sleeps until the sun is high, and when he comes to the study, he realizes that his two cheap students have come very early, and they are studying the Four Books and Five Classics in the study. .

"Teacher, we know that our aptitude is mediocre, and our knowledge is poor. I'm afraid this time the provincial examination is to embarrass our teacher. But the old saying goes well, if you grind your guns in front of the battle, you will be unhappy. There is still half a month, so naturally we have to concentrate on studying."

Tong Yuan quickly said respectfully.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin said old-fashionedly, then came to the desk where the two were reading, looked at the books on the desk and asked, "What books are you reading?"

"Students are reading The Book of Rites."

Tong Yuan replied.

"Students are watching "The Doctrine of the Mean."

Huang Jinquan also replied.

"It's only a month before the provincial examination. It's useless for you to read these books now. Put them aside."

Liu Jin also nodded after listening, then smiled and said.

"Put all these books aside?"

The two said suspiciously at the same time.

"Yes, put it aside."

Liu Jin came to his desk, sat down gently, and said, "For the next half a month, we won't read these four books and five classics, let's brush up the questions."

"Brush the question?"

As soon as the two heard it, they became even more confused. Huang Jinquan quickly asked, "Teacher, what do you mean by brushing the questions?"

"Studying the questions is just to keep doing the questions. To put it simply, we use the questions of the previous years' township examinations and general examinations to practice, and constantly practice how to write stereotyped essays. After writing the stereotyped essays, the three of us will rate each other. Work together to study the shortcomings of each other's articles."

"After we have done enough questions, the three of us will bet on the questions again. Based on our own inferences, we will ask each other questions, and then we will do the questions again."

Liu Jin thought for a while and explained to the two of them.

"That's it~"

As soon as the two heard it, they immediately understood what was going on with the quizzes, and then Tong Yuan thought for a while and asked, "Teacher, what's the use of doing the quizzes?"

"Of course it's useful. This is for you to practice the questions of the imperial examination well, so that you won't be nervous during the exam, and your mind won't be blank. If we can be lucky when betting on the questions, we can beat the exam questions. The probability of passing will be greatly increased.”

Liu Jin said confidently that the method of brushing questions has been tested countless times in the college entrance examinations in later generations. After doing some questions a few times, it will be justified. The same topic, this is the benefit of brushing the topic.

"Well, let's start now. Come up with a question for the teacher. This question is the provincial examination question in Beizhili in the sixth year of Tianshun. The question is the knowledge of scholars' knowledge. Let the three of us do the question."

Liu Jin had already asked people to find out the imperial examination questions of the provincial and general examinations over the years, and casually flipped through one of them and said.

Hearing Liu Jinnian's question, Huang Jinquan and Tong Yuan immediately became thoughtful, and then quickly frowned.

This question is very insidious. The stem of the question hides the second half of the sentence. The original sentence should be "scholars first learn about art and then literature and art". The person who wrote the question must have done it on purpose. Clear and chaotic answers.

What does this sentence mean?

This sentence comes from the "New Book of Tang·Pei Xingjian Biography", the scholar's long-distance, first knowledge, then literature and art, that is to say, to be a scholar, you must first have knowledge of tools, and then talk about literature and art.

Who is Pei Xingjian talking about?Old Pei was talking about Wang Bo, Luo Binwang, Lu Zhaolin, and Yang Jiong, the Four Heroes of the early Tang Dynasty. He said that although they were very famous, except for Yang Jiong, the first three were all arrogant and impetuous. Why was it so poisonous? Later, one was beheaded and two were drowned. Only Yang Jiong had a good death.

Of course, when taking the imperial examination, you must not talk so much useless, just understand the essence of this sentence and know which aspect the question focuses on.

Both Huang Jinquan and Tong Yuan are constantly thinking and pondering, of course, they may also be thinking about the source of this exam question, and at the same time thinking about how to write the composition.

As for Liu Jin, he has golden fingers, and can form a standard excellent stereotyped essay in an instant in his mind, so he has nothing to do at this time, and carefully observes his two cheap students.

Both of them were frowning at this time, as if they were constantly recalling the source of the question, which is very important, because only after they figured out the source of the question, could they write the full text of the source, and then carefully study the full text, Then study the situation of the author who wrote this article at that time, and then gather the historical background at that time to study this article.

This is only the first step, and the requirements are already quite high. It is necessary to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly in order to be able to know the source of this question in a short period of time.

Comparing the fill-in-the-blank questions in the Chinese questions of the college entrance examination in later generations with this one, it is simply the pediatrics of the pediatrics, and there is no comparison at all.

For these scholars who took the imperial examination, this endorsement was considered a basic skill, and many of them had already memorized the Four Books and Five Classics by heart.

But knowing the source is only the first step. You must also combine the author's situation, the background of the time, etc. to deeply understand this article, and you must also know the annotations of some Confucian sages in history.

If this step is also done, then you can start the third step, which is to judge how you should answer the questions based on the current political situation and the personal preferences and political views of the examiner in front of you. Now, even if it is written in a hype, the ground spring golden lotus is of no use.

If you have achieved this step, then congratulations, you can start writing stereotyped essays, but do you think stereotyped essays are very simple?

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, this stereotyped essay has extremely strict requirements at every step starting from solving the questions. It is definitely not an easy task to write out the answers according to the requirements of the stereotyped essay.

Well, if you write a good stereotyped essay, you think it's over?
No, there is still something to do, and that is to find out whether there is any taboo in the stereotyped essays I have written.

There were so many taboos in the ancient royal family, such as big taboos, minor taboos, etc. To put it simply, it is equivalent to the ancient river crab god, and there are many things that cannot be written on it.

For example, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was surnamed Zhu, and this pig is considered a taboo. In addition, things like Zhu Di taking his nephew Jiangshan must not be said. This is a taboo. The first emperor's name, year, etc. cannot be mentioned, these are taboos.

Only when all these are done well, can it be regarded as a successful stereotyped essay, otherwise, if any step is wrong, you will face the situation of losing your reputation.

Huang Jinquan and Tong Yuan answered the questions very slowly, and it took more than an hour to figure out the source of the question. Of course, there is plenty of time for the imperial examinations, usually three days and three days in a row. At night, there is plenty of time.

As for Liu Jin who has been waiting, he was very bored, so he wrote an article early. To be precise, he left the study room after copying out an stereotyped article, leaving two people thinking hard, constantly thinking about what to do. How to answer the question.

The imperial examinations are not something that ordinary people can take. Everyone who can stand out in the imperial examinations is a person with real talents and real learning. Of course, this real talent and real learning is only limited to these things of Confucianism, which is too one-sided and narrow.

　I copied the topic randomly, please don’t be serious~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)